"Home" -- singular. Siblings?
BTW, it appears to me a nice, well-kept "home"... New public housing -- with sidelights in the doorway? (If so, invitation to break-in...)
We had a situation in Georgia in *military* housing. One of the army wives lost her mind while our husbands were deployed and left her two babies (2 and 3) in the care of her 8 year old daughter.
I was one of the neighbors who took the kids in when I found then roaming. I’d feed and bathe them and let them stay at my place for hours. (There were about 4 of us women who rotated this while the guys were gone. None of us *ever* met the mother.)
My husband found the little ones outside roaming one morning shortly after he came back. It was 4:30AM and he was on his way to PT. He took the kids out of the road, banged like hell on the locked door and delivered the kids to their mother.
After someone (with more courage than me) called the police, the children were taken. When the apartment was cleaned out, there were two *full* pickup loads of garbage hauled to the dump. (Something like 40 lawn and leaf bags for garbage taken from a small, 3 bedroom apartment)
The poor husband came home to a missing wife, a trashed military apartment, abandoned kids, and $20,000 in debt. Not to mention that she had sold everything that was of value to feed her gambling addiction so had had no vehicle.
This happens everywhere. (Although, I agree it’s more common in the projects.)